Summary
Maksim Melnik is a Senior IT-Security Manager based in Frankfurt with eight years of hands-on experience across SOC operations, vulnerability management, and security engineering. He holds a Master's in IT-Security from TU Darmstadt and has applied his academic work to practical ML and blockchain proofs-of-concept, including an LSTM model for vulnerability forecasting. At ACG he operated as a SOC analyst for major financial clients, built an internal OpenSearch SIEM, authored Sigma rules and automation scripts, and designed cybersecurity awareness programs and CTF challenges. Earlier roles at Ericsson and TU Darmstadt show a strong software-engineering foundation—Java, Python, Jenkins, Kafka, Keycloak and web development—allowing him to bridge development and security effectively. Now leading security at Helaba, he combines incident response experience with practical tooling and detection engineering to reduce risk in large enterprise environments. Colleagues would note his uncommon mix of developer instincts and security program-building, plus a penchant for creating hands-on training and automation to scale defenses.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
English, Russian, German, Ukrainian